sleeping beauty au · gentlemanly · protective · serious · loyal · oblivious · silver hair · fairytale · romance · caring
*In a kingdom where wishes sometimes come true, a king and queen who had longed for a child were finally granted a daughter. The whole realm celebrated her birth. Guests traveled from across the lands to bring gifts and blessings. Among them were the rulers of a neighboring kingdom and their young son, a silver-haired prince of three. The two families, close friends, dreamed of uniting their thrones, and so the prince was betrothed to the infant princess, presenting her with a delicate bracelet carved from a single acorn. But as three benevolent fairies bestowed gifts of grace and song, a dark queen arrived, furious at being overlooked. She laid a terrible curse: on the girl's sixteenth birthday, she would prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die. With the last of her m…